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reply to your . correspondent ' s first objection . Such however is the popular preacher whom alone judging by their professions and by their conduct , so far as 1 have had an opportunity to observe it ,
the managers of the Unitarian Fund would be willing to encourage ; not such as use ' means , proper or otherwise , to please the people and gratify their tasie , " an insinuation quite unworthy of a modest querist . "
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EXTRACTS OF LETTERS TO THli LATE MR . EVA"N SONj ON THE PUBLICATION OF HJS U DISJ 5 ON A N CE . "
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( 5 iRf Qloucest € r ^ Sept , 25 , 1807 , The following extracts from two letters written to the late Mr . Evanson on the publication of the first edition of his Dissonance of the four gospels , have lately been obtained * from a friend who had
carefully copied them from the original * , 3 $ id by whom they have been preserved . The writers ot these letters were quite unknown to Mr . Evanson at the time he
received them . Thinking they will be acceptable to many of your readers , I will thank you to give them '^ a place in your Repository , which will greatly oblige
A constant Reader . After a third perusal of the Dissonance , I feel myself competent to declare that I consider it is a most masterly performance , which must fully convince every unprejudiced mind , that
MattheW , &e . &c were not written by the authors to whom they are ascribed . You will have a great weight of prejudice to encounter . Many , not so much from a spirit of bigotry , ( which seems pretty well explgded amongst the reputable and leading part of ' mankindJ as ' from that self pridc j which will not
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I had designed to notice th « other queries ,- so Far as tlie Unitarian Fund is concerned , but ; , " fond of the theme / ' I have sufl fered my pen to run away with me , so that I must now intrude no further on the important occupation of your pages . Should you encourSge me , by the insertion of this letfer , I may possibly resume the subject . Your ' s , IGNOTUS-.
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suffer the most liberal of our theologians ( a Watson , &c . &c . for example ) to give up in their old age , writings which they have so long pored over with implicit faith , those inconsistencies they have laboriously , and in their own opinions successfully strained to reconcile ; and whose authority they have probate ! y quoted in support of some favourite topic of their creed . Such fortitude as this I cannot expect , martyrdom is a joke to it , but the rising generation will be open to your arguments : the unbeliever will see what he has to combat , and the believer will not be encumbered with
tjie management of superstitious contradictions , and questionable evidence which mar his cause . And really Christianity should be brought to something like a crisis . That it sjiould-be rationally and credibly ascertained , or fairly given up , is become matter of high
importance $ absurdly believed by Byrne , treated with senseless derisipn by others , and coldly neglected by the rest , it actually seems of no other ** U 8 e a ) t present , than to support an expensive font aiid empty name . * 1 feel in its full force all you observe on prophecy , &c .
IJLTTER II . € Your important publication is 9-work , which by reducing religion tpthe standard of reason , and , clearing U of . all those incumbrances which cannot ; fail to raise scruples in the most sincere mindg
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SS Extracts of Letters to the late Mr . Evanson .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1808, page 88, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2389/page/32/
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